{"id":57086,"date":"2025-12-01T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/57086\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:12:09","slug":"man-has-pants-set-on-fire-on-times-square-subway-platform-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/57086\/","title":{"rendered":"Man has pants set on fire on Times Square subway platform: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 65-year-old man suffered burns to his legs after his pants were set on fire on a subway platform in Times Square early Monday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The injured man was found on the platform at the 42nd Street station just after 3 a.m. after police responded to a 911 call about an assault.<\/p>\n<p>Police are still probing whether someone attacked the man or if he set himself alight.<\/p>\n<p>A man who was set on fire is taken to an ambulance from the train station at 42nd St. in Times Square in Manhattan, Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. Robert Mecea<\/p>\n<p>The victim seen on the subway platform. Robert Mecea<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made in the attack. Robert Mecea<\/p>\n<p>The man was treated on the platform of the northbound 1, 2, 3 train before being taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center in a stable condition, police said.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 65-year-old man suffered burns to his legs after his pants were set on fire on a subway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[544,57,141,9,11,10,1687,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-57086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-fires","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-mta","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-subways","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}